Under the guidance of certain educational values, according to the established educational goals, through the use of certain technologies and methods, the process of scientific judgment on various educational activities, educational processes and educational results.
Throughout the historical development of educational evaluation theory and practice, it has experienced three different periods: ancient traditional examination, modern scientific test and contemporary scientific evaluation.
The object of early education evaluation is mainly the teaching field, focusing on the evaluation of students' academic performance, and on this basis, judging the advantages and disadvantages of teaching plan and curriculum development. The object of modern education evaluation extends to all educational fields, and all aspects of macro and micro educational activities can be used as evaluation objects.
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According to the evaluation criteria, it can be divided into relative evaluation, absolute evaluation and intra-individual difference evaluation, norm reference evaluation and standard reference evaluation; According to the function of evaluation, it can be divided into diagnostic evaluation, formative evaluation and summative evaluation; According to the categories of evaluation objects, it can be divided into overall evaluation and individual evaluation, group evaluation and individual evaluation.
According to the grade of the evaluation school, it can be divided into higher school evaluation, middle school evaluation and primary school evaluation; According to the types of evaluation schools, it can be divided into vocational school evaluation, professional school evaluation, normal school evaluation and special education school evaluation; According to the identity of the evaluation subject, it can be divided into self-evaluation and others' evaluation; According to whether mathematical methods are adopted, it can be divided into quantitative evaluation and non-quantitative evaluation.
From the perspective of people's evaluation of education, we can regard education evaluation as a process of making value judgments on educational activities, educational processes and educational results by using feasible scientific means according to certain educational values or educational goals, so as to continuously improve ourselves and provide basis for educational decision-making.
It is suitable for expounding the value of various educational phenomena in the field of general education. Its characteristics are: educational evaluation is a process with certain procedures and systematic activities; Educational evaluation is based on certain educational goals or values.
The core of educational evaluation is the value judgment of the function, state and effect of the evaluation object; Educational evaluation is based on scientific evaluation methods and techniques; The ultimate goal of educational evaluation is to continuously improve the behavior of the evaluation object, improve the quality of education and serve the educational decision-making.
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